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We are stopping more posts than usual, but no where near the max that we hit about four years ago. More agressive moderation is something that we've considered, and I will bring the issue up again.

It takes some time to work through the process, there are multiple people that have to weigh in on this kind of change. I expect that it will be about two weeks before I have a final answer. I will be traveling about that time, so it could be as much as a month before you see this change if it is approved.

-PatP

In theory, theory and practice are identical. In practice, theory and practice are unrelated.

It takes some time to work through the process, there are multiple people that have to weigh in on this kind of change.

Any news on this?
Seems the spammers are quite active again.

In another forum-site (TotalCommander: http://www.ghisler.ch/board/index.php?language=english) I have seen a "trick", where the first sub-forum would be a honeypot (spam trap). Any user posting into that would be automatically be deleted. Apparently a lot of spammers simply take the first (sub)forum without any check. The forum description contains a big warning to prevent real users to accidently post there.

It did reduce the number of spams there drastically. So maybe that is an option for dbForums as well.